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The overwhelming majority of gas stations are small businesses — not the big oil companies whose brands they sell — and the rise in the wholesale gas price they pay has cut deeply into their already thin profit margins. https://cnn.it/4fb3wVp
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Analysis Summary
Most US gas stations are independently owned small businesses that buy fuel at wholesale prices, not subsidiaries of major oil companies. When wholesale prices spike — as they have recently with the Iran conflict driving crude up — station owners' profit margins get squeezed because they can't pass along all the cost increase to customers without losing sales. The Boston Globe quoted a station owner saying all operators from single stores to chains of 100 are suffering as prices hit $4.53 per gallon.
Claims Analysis (2)
“The overwhelming majority of gas stations are small businesses — not the big oil companies whose brands they sell”
Confirmed by CNN Business reporting and industry data. Small independent operators control ~65-75% of US gas stations.
“The rise in the wholesale gas price has cut deeply into their already thin profit margins”
Corroborated by CNN, Boston Globe, and gas station owner quotes confirming margin compression during price spikes.
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